Theater2.NYTimes.com – By Charles Isherwood
Life bears down upon you, wave after wave after wave, in “Les Ephemeres,” the haunting new production from the French theatrical auteur Ariane Mnouchkine and her company Le Theatre du Soleil. Birth and death, anguished partings, lazy days at the beach, moments of joy and fear, solitude and communion: all flow past in a deep, steady stream that ultimately opens out into a vista of beauty both humble in its mundane details and immense in its emotional impact.